36” Induction Range Recs (Ilve, AGA, Thermador, Bosch, Cafe?)
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Is the Ilve 30" gas range "pro style"?
Comments (14)I can appreciate your situation, Pemfan. There are some "better" recirculating hoods --- not just more powerful as homepro notes but also with better capture area. The biggest problem with OTRs is that they mostly just cover the back burners. Not a whole lot of benefit to them in recirculating mode. That said, I've seen NYC kitchens that were smaller than the small antique bathrooms in my century+ year-old house. If you got somewhere to hang or stash a MW, do it. If you don't, .... well, I know folks who used window fans and other stop gaps. We work with the kitchens we have. As for "more powerful" burners, I have to ask about how you cook. Bigger burners are best for larger pans -- ones with bases of at least 10 inches in diameter and sometimes 12 or more. How many and how often do you figure on working with four big pots at a time? Or five, if you get a five burner range? If you are going to be using two big pans on the front, (say a 12" diameter LC fry pan and a 5 to 7 quart LC oven/casserole/pot) s what will you be using in the back. Maybe a couple of smaller pans (say. a 3 quart and 2 quart LeCrueset sauce pan?) If the latter, then you actually could be better off with the typically smaller back burners of major brand ranges. Another thought to consider: one of the advantages of most pro-style rangetops is that the burners tend to be spaced wider apart so it is easier to run four large pots at once. Major brand ranges generally have the burners on 9" centers (front to back) where that distance will be 11 inches apart, or wider, on pro-style ranges. YOu may want to check that on the Ilve if you are still considering it. IIRC, the burner spacer on the Ilve stove is even narrower per the Euro-style standards. Finally, as has been suggested here recently in some other threads, you'd probably find it a lot more convenient to get a four burner stove and find a place to stash a 120v portable induction cooktop (say a Duxtop 9100 or Max Burton 6400) which you could pull out and use on those times you need five burners. Still, if you have your heart set on a five burner unit, a fried of mine recently got a very good deal on a "ding-n-bing" GE Cafe range. (I almost bought one myself three ago when I was stove shopping, but I got outbid and wound up with an NXR from Costco, instead). I know a number of people who are happily using five-burner models from the GE Profile line, or the Frigidaire Gallery line. Somebody above suggested an Electrolux range which also might work well for you but I would check the owner's/user's guide to be sure you can light the burners manually in the event of a power outage. Some E'lux and Whirlpool Corp. products run all controls through an electronic control panel which means you can't light the top burners manually. For four burner units, I;d suggest the same brands plus Bosch. (IIRC, some Bosch gas ranges are made under subcontract with Elux/Frigidaire to somewhat different specs.) A couple friends have has Bosch ranges and been pleased....See MoreSo I’m just beginning to research mid price induction ranges,
Comments (18)You haven't heard that because you have not been frequenting "post-factual" websites. :>) Strikes me that the sales guy has a real flair for the inaccurate, particularly when it comes to induction products from Bosch. For induction in the North American market. the company has four lines for cooktops which are the 300 line, the 500 line, the 800 line, and the Benchmark line; each of the latter two lines includes an induction range. These products for the North American market are made in North Carolina, not Germany or China. As are Bosch's dishwashers for the North American market. (Tho, Bosch used to source a couple of its highest end Benchmark models from Germany and might still do so.) Now, microwave ovens would be a different story. Only, there aint "two lines." No Germans make any of the Bosch-branded nukers for the North American market. Bosch gets its residential microwave ovens from the same factories in China, Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea that make them for everybody else. IIRC, there were some threads here a few years back on Bosch sourcing some of its side-by-side fridges first from the South Korean conglomerate Daewoo and then from one of the big Chinese factories. Other Bosch fridges were made for Bosch by Whirlpool here and in Mexico. Not sure where the current Bosch fridges come from. Somewhere (Yale Appliance Blog?) I think I saw an industry report saying that Bosch and its corporate stablemate, Thermador, currently source their fridges from Acerlik, a manufacturing conglomerate based in Turkey but having factories in Turkey, Romania, Russia, China, South Africa and Thailand. Nothing like the simplistic "Chinese crap and German whatever," eh? As a complete and utter aside, I think Amana (now owned by Whirlpool) is still making microwave ovens in the USA and doing so in Iowa. However, those all seem to be commercial food service products rather than consumer/residential ones. Meanwhile..... back at the point of this thread .... so, PG, let us know how your stove search goes....See MoreBest professional induction range
Comments (30)With induction the 'fake' professional range is not happening. Because no such unit is used in a restaurant. Induction uses a 40 or 50A 220v circuit. Adding electric oven capability should get another circuit. A high quality 6 burner range isn't out there. This would happen if you installed an electric oven below a cooktop or a couple ovens separately somewhere else. True professional induction units are all cooktops. No ranges. I wouldn't consider a Viking product of any type. Consumer Reports doesn't test a broad enough range of products these days, because there are so many, to be the final word. The problem with price as your primary guide is the current lack of longevity engineered into many products in the lower to mid range. No one here wants to pay more. But for some things it will end up costing you less over a 10 year period to buy a product that's made to last. Even if the initial price is more than a Whirlpool with it's 1 year warranty. Just avoid paying more for poor quality, such as Viking....See More36" Induction Range
Comments (12)Hi Live-Wire, We currently have a 20 year old 36" viking range with a single (large) oven, and we want to replace with an induction oven. So the 36" range is a non-negotiable unit. The reason I thought of having two ovens in a 36" range was because the VERONA VEFSEE365DSS has two. But I've been since learned those aren't sold often in NoAmerica, and there are no reviews, so we are not considering it further. We do have a Breville, and use it often, but having two reasonably sized ovens would be preferable to my one LARGE and the much smaller Breville. I cook a LOT, we have a BIG family/extended family. Our kitchen was remodeled two years ago and while we looked at how we could possible add a wall oven then, that configuration was not possible in this 120 year old house (my husband is an architect)....See Morecjammer
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